Summer Workshop 2023 at OU

09:00   Coffee, Introductions, and Registration

09:15   QuarkNet Today

• slides
• look at quarknet.org
• workshop overview
• implementation

09:45  Particle Physics in a Nutshell, Dr. Tao Xu, University of Oklahoma (slides)

10:45   Break

11:00   Introduction to Neutrinos, Dr. K.S. Babu, Oklahoma State University (slides)

12:00   Lunch

13:30  New Questions Warm-up 

• Slides
• Shuffling the Particle Deck
• Measuring the Z (plots) (histogram example)

14:15   W-bosons 1: Lepton Universality

• Slides
• Video
• Our measurement
  • WW decays
  • Cheat sheet
  • Report Form
  • Results
• Discussion of results

15:00   Break

15:15   W bosons 2: Mass confusion

• Slides 
• Calculating W
  • Event Display
  • Z data form - Spreadsheet
  • W data form
• Optional
  • Z notebook
  • W notebook
• Discussion

16:30 End of day

09:00 Review and Reflection

09:15  The muon has its moment

• Video: The physics of g-2
• play with tops
• g-2 short study
• Video: What does the Muon g-2 experiment
• tell us?
• Discussion

10:15   Break

10:30   Refocus: All Things Neutrino

• All things neutrino report-out
• Presentation

11:15   The Case of the Missing Neutrino

• slides
• events
• helpful spreadsheet
• Video clip: Neutrinos: Nature's Ghosts? (Don Lincoln)

12:00   Lunch

13:30   Neutrino Masterclass measurement (take break as needed)

 Slides 
 Part 1A: Far Detector CC/"NuMu" Events

• CC/"NuMu" Images - link <-- Measure here
• CC/"NuMu" Report Track Lengths - link <-- Record here
• Results of track length reporting form <-- View together

Part 1B: Far Detector NC Events

• NC Images - link <--Measure here
• NC Report Track Lengths <-- Record here
• Results of track length reporting form <-- View together
• Discuss: What is our (imperfect) cutoff length that we will use to separate likely CC and NC events?

 Part 2: Near Detector Events - use coding notebooks (begin)

• Python Near Event Analysis - Participant Version
  • Do a “File - Make a Copy”
  • Github link

Discuss: Did we see evidence of neutrino oscillation? What is your reasoning?

 Concluding video: How Neutrino Oscillations Work - From Even Bananas

16:00  Masterclass discussion and reflection

16:30 End of day

09:00 Tour: History of Science Collection

10:15   Recap and reflection

10:45   Break

11:00   Share-a-thon (notes)

https://www.random.org/dice/

12:00   Lunch

13:30   Implementation plans

• Group notes

14:15  Presentations

15:00   Center business meeting

16:00   Final discussion and reflection

• Teacher Survey
• 2-question evaluation
• Check: Did you register (day one)? Did you sign in each day?

16:30   End of workshop